rimocanaliculate
English
Adjective
rimocanaliculate (not comparable)
- (zoology, of an egg from pseudo-avian dinosaurs) Having very narrow, slit-like pore canals. This pore system is seen in modern ostriches, so these eggs were laid in open nests, similar to how ostriches do today.
Coordinate terms
- multicanaliculate
- obliquicanaliculate
- prolatocanaliculate
- angusticanaliculate
- tubocanaliculate